Miss Maynell and I grew to know each other through the mail. When World War II ended, I returned from Europe. We planned our first meeting at the Grand Central Station in New York.

   At seven, I was in the station and waited for the girl whose heart I loved but whose face I’d never seen.

   Suddenly a girl in a green suit was coming toward me. I stood up from the bench and started toward her, completely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.

   “Going my way, sailor?” the girl murmured, walking away quickly. I made one step closer to her and then I saw Miss Maynell, who was well past 40, standing almost directly behind her with a red rose. I felt something even better than love. I didn’t hesitate and walked to her. “I’m John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell,” I said, feeling shocked by the bitterness of disappointment. “I’m glad you could meet me. May I take you to dinner?”

   The woman smiled. “I don’t know what this is about, son,” she answered. “But the young lady in the green suit begged me to wear this rose. And she said if you were to invited me to dinner, I should tell you that she is waiting for you in a big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”

54What did John Blanchard go to the station for?        

A. To see the middle-aged woman

B. To wait for a girl from Europe.

C. To invite the woman with a rose to dinner.

D. To meet his lover as planned.

55.How could John Blanchard recognize the girl?       

    A. By her green suit                               B. By her red rose

C. By her beautiful face                      D. By her pictures

56 Why did John feel disappointed? Because _______.

A. he realized that it was not love

B. he found the girl was going away

C. he failed to find the girl with a rose

D. he knew that the girl would test him.

 He was about to tell me the secret___________someone called him by his name.

A. as               B. until          C. while        D. when

I need time to _______ on what the teacher taught in class.

A. consider     B. reflect            C. imagine        D. suggest

“In real life, the daily struggles between parents and children are around these narrow problems of an extra hour, extra TV show, and so on” said Avi Sadeh, psychology professor at Tel Aviv University. “Too little sleep and more accidents,” he said.Sadeh and his colleagues found an extra hour of sleep can make a big difference. The children who slept longer, although they woke up more frequently during the night, scored higher on tests, Sadeh reported in the March/April issue of journal Child Development. “When the children slept longer, their sleep quality was somewhat weak, but in spite of this their performance for study improved because the extra sleep was more important than the reduction in sleep quality. ”Sadeh said. “Some studies suggested that lack of sleep as a child affects development into adulthood and it’s more likely to develop their attention disorder when they grow older. ”

In earlier studies, Sadeh’s team found that fourth graders slept an average of 8.2 hours and sixth graders slept an average of 7. 7 hours. “Previous research has shown children in elementary school need at least nine hours of sleep a night on a regular basis, said Carl Hunt, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in Bethesda, and high-school-age children need somewhat less, he said, adding that the results of lack of sleep could be serious.

“A tired child is an accident waiting to happen,” Hunt said. “And as kids get older, toy get bigger and the risks higher. ” Hunt also said too little sleep could result in learning and memory problems and long-term effects on school performance. “This is an important extension of what we already know, ” Hunt said of Sadeh’s research, adding sleep is as important as nutrition(營養(yǎng)) and exercise to good health. “To put it into reality,” Hunt said, “parents should make sure they know when their children actually are going to sleep and their rooms are helpful to sleep instead of playing. ”

68. What is Child Development?

A. A new story                                  B. An organization

C. A periodical magazine                     D .A TV programme

69. How many persons are exactly mentioned in the text?

A One                 B Two               C Three                  D Four

70. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. There are some daily struggles between parents and children because of having

nothing in common with extra rest time.

B. The children who sleep longer are weak in their study.

C. Lack of sleep as a child has great effect on their development into adulthood.

D. In general, children in elementary school need at least nine hours of sleep a night.

--- Are you firmly against any independence move by Taiwan?

  --- Of course. That is _______ our basic interest lies.

A. why              B. when          C where            D what

---When did the young man save you?

       ---January 1st,2000, the first day of the new century,_______ I can never forget.

       A. when                B. which                      C. that                          D. where

第三部分 閱讀理解（共15小題，每小題2分，共30分。）

閱讀下列短文，從每題中的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳答案。

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It’s likely that everything you learned about America’s ancient history is wrong.

   The new book, 1491, completely changes our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

                DID YOU KNOW?

   When Columbus landed there were probably more people in the Americas than there were in Europe.

   The peoples of North America had such healthy life-styles that as late as the 19th century they continued to be the tallest people on earth.

   Facts have shown that the Americas were populated as long as 33,000 years ago.

   4,000 years ago Mesoamerican farmers developed corn in a feat (技藝) of genetic engineering that still isn’t completely understood.

                        COMMENTS ON 1491

     “In the tradition of Jared Diamond & John McPhee, a totally new view of pie-Columbian America”                                                    --Richard Rhodes

     “Attractively written and really absorbing ... Charles C. Mann has produced a book that’s part detective story, part epic (史詩) and part tragedy. He has taken on a vast topic: thousands of years, two huge continents, and cultures.”

                                          -- Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News

     “Powerful and challenging”

                                                 --Alan Taylor, Washington Post

     “A pleasure to read as well as a wonderful education”              -- Howard Zinn

56. On the whole, 1491 is a book mainly about America’s_______ .

A. life-styles       B. population       C. history         D. agriculture

57. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the comments on the book 1491 ?

A. It is interesting and instructive.        B. It is attractive and culturally related

C. It is challenging and revolutionary.     D. It is humorous and persuasive.

58. From this passage, we can learn______ .

A. people settled in the Americas a little earlier than 1492

B. North Americans were the tallest in the 18th century in the world

C. Mesoamerican farmers knew genetic engineering 5,000 years ago

D. the population in the Americas was smaller than that in Europe in 1492

She was ___I met at the party.

A. a woman   B.woman  C, the one   D. one that

--Would you mind opening the window?--____.

A.That’s all right   B. OK   C.Yes, you can    D. Certainly not

II. 語言知識及應(yīng)用 （共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié) 完形填空 （共10小題，每小題2分，滿分20分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21~30各題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do .But that Sunday in 2008 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I tended to think of my shortcomings —how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children , and how many things I couldn’t   21  my waitress’ salary to buy .

But what   22   kids I had! They were   23   impolite enough to complain.

As I walked into the kitchen quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   24    a dozen red roses! But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   25   of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It  26   :

…She took a day off from her busy   27   to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5hours just to get there, and on their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   28   his hero. After the game, she stayed with the little boy to get his hero’s signature until one o’clock in the morning …

It took me long enough to    29   it, but I finally know who the 30    hero is . Mom, I love you!

And suddenly, it was a happy Mother’s Day, after all.

21. A. stress    B. spend  C. strengthen  D. spare

22. A. great    B. poor   C. faithful      D. pretty

23. A. merely  B. usually       C. never  D. often

24. A. including     B. containing  C. possessing  D. pinning

25. A. scratch  B. description C. tone    D. handwriting

26. A. read     B. recorded     C. memorized D. wrote

27. A. event    B. content       C. schedule     D. circumstance

28.A. impressed     B. presented    C. printed       D. pressed

29. A. see       B. tell     C. feed    D. realize

30. A. actual   B. true    C. imaginary   D. visual